10.20.07

ShenStock!

Posted in School, X-team at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

RighTEO!

Sixth form rock consert, this year was lucky number 13!!! so after college i went down to help out my friends. And in amongest the hiding from teachers and “working” i got roped into singing a queen song, with the guys for the final! grrrrr

twas a better back drop, better stage set out, but still i think the music let it down by last years standards. But seeing my friends and working with the guys i love for another time made my day! just wait till high school musical!
now it was a very good show, with shiney singing and good music, no one did a cover of muse thank heavens and the glow sticks added a bit more sparkle!

but hey!!!! shenstock 13!!!!! lets dance to big fish little fish eh hannah!!!

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09.11.07

My college

Posted in School at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

So I have finally left Shenfield High School!

Independence and all that jazz! Its great to think that everyone I know (minus the Public Services students at Chelmsford) are at school and we have the joys of staying home and having around two more weeks of relaxing on our arse’s!

Now the time my induction and enrolment has passed (so far the sub total has been around 3 hours…) I would have spent more time at Shenfield High School….Seeing friends and saying goodbye to some teachers….Surely it should be the other way around should it not?!

Now the head of the course, well at least the main teacher of the public services course is in the simplest way to say it…Well she an ex army officers….And looks like a P.E teacher…..She is pure evil….All the students are afraid of her,…Even the other teachers are scared of her. One of them left the army to get away from her as she was the higher ranking officers, as soon as he is offered a teaching job…She is there as his boss. In the induction she was introduced as “Our Living Nightmare”…Cant wait eh!?

And to make it worse because no uniforms have been ordered we have to wear tracksuits…

    …………………………I don’t want to go college anymore…………………………

07.17.07

Yr 11 Prom Monday 16th July 2007

Posted in Friends, School at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

Now before you ask, some of the photo’s are up on myspace (myspace.com/xtwikletx) in the album surprisingly called ‘Prom’.

So another last but yet its not it was also a first! First time seeing my year looking shiny and sparkly. And by the photo’s you can tell year 11 of Shenfield high school scrub up pretty damn well!!! But also a last before the results day, cue dramatic music!So because we are posh! We rented out Stock Brook Manner, instead of the fashionable ST Martins high having the local night club “Sam’s”.

Now me and my friend Vicky saw no attraction into hiring the fire engine or the limo or even the big old “environmental friendly” hummers. So as I’m a daddy’s girl and my dad has a nicer car we got dropped off in his Merck.Now one thing to be said about the girls of my year; you all looked stunning!! And the boy’s you really were….did all have bath day early?!

But we were there, watching everyone arrive and taking pictures and saying how nice each other looked. Now there we certain dates in the groups we went in, Trudie and Matt, Solly and Danni, Max and Lizzie then Dale and myself. Everyone else had a clever idea and thought “I don’t need a date.”

So after the Photos, done professionally I may add we had a drink and stood outside and waited for dinner. We got upstairs and sat and ate the three course meal laughing and joking around and yet again more pictures. Myself and Vicky then went and ordered our photos from the desk and then was outside again awaiting the tables to be cleared so that everyone could start dancing. Now the music there was most likely only 10-15 songs I knew! Everything else was just crap rave clubbing stuff that known of us had ever heard.

Now girls will sympathise that high hill shoe, as pretty as they look they are murder to wear and all of us had our shoes off but about 20 to 10 because of pain!     

So we got to hot dancing so me, Dale, Max, Emma, and Sam went and sat outside, telling jokes and laughing at Trudie not being able to have a fag, then Dale sneaking up on Emma and Luke was by far the funniest thing of the evening. We returned to the dance floor for the fletellis, then we all went into our couples for the slow dancing, which was a lovely way to finish I think.

We then all said Goodbye! Until results Year 11!! also hahaha gutted to all the guys i.e Ron who said i wasnt gonna fit in my dress as it was a size 6! IT DID!

Outside Prom

07.11.07

The Artisans – Basicly the Moulin Rouge school show/ Goodbye X team

Posted in Friends, School, X-team at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

Right last school show…..Surely I should be used to these last things …God only knows what Proms goanna turn out like! 

So two days of work at school, the joys eh! If you read my earlier blog’s you will see that my enjoyment of school only lies with being a member of the X team; so working at school for two days is fine really. Yesterday was the all day rehearsal… a day of running around for the one and only moaning director Ms Kitsiou. Not much really to be said about it now apart from the annoying seating that had to be set out and having to sit between Matt and Adam driving me insane. But we did start the “Your mum’s…. Your face’s….Your mum’s face…” running joke that has been following us around for two days now! Best one that has been said was by Piers, Peter and myself yesterday on the blocks “Your mum’s face’s has got tits!”

Today no rehearsals…but I went in anyways. I got given a wonderful present by the guys, which must have cost them a lot of money, A personalise Monopoly set with everyone’s names on and yes I cried like the unstable emotional person I am!…ha to Jordan only being worth £60 and Adam the big spender being £400! Also sat through A-level I.C.T as I seem to be doing a lot these days and a University lecture and school had finished so a quick set up and off the fish ‘n’ chicken by peters house as a much loved tradition! Where we watched clips of family guy back at Peter’s house and drunk all his coke and lemonade.

Back school we finished set up, I ran away from Jordan, as I was given his phone. And then the show! It went really well just like the night before. Only downer was…I was on lighting! And as you can also read on my other blog’s… Stage crew is my 1st love of the crews! Nice way to finish my 3 years of work on the crew that I didn’t originally join. Still remember my 1st school show. The X team scared me and I didn’t want to go back… now look!

Thank you all for the last 3 years, I can tell you now I will not be back for sixth form as I will hopefully be attending college. I will be back for odd visits though so be warned you haven’t got completely rid of me just yet. You all are amazing!

 Thank you!

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the crews…well some!

07.01.07

My Never Ending Work…..

Posted in School at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

3 weeks ago yesterday was my birthday. I got a Brand New shiney Laptop from my Father and his partner Amanda. I love it! Yes it has caused me many problems and I have had moments where I have had to restrain myself from throwing it agenst a brick wall or turning the shower on it, because it is Vista….Enought said there :P  

 Now I have one theory to why I have not smased the God-damn thing agenst the wall yet and that is…..I’m having to pay for it! Yes a birthday present I am having to pay for! The deal was that I was to pay my daddy £130 for a £700 laptop, not too bad really. But I very rarly get given money and Birthday is one of them so out of the £125 I got on my birthday I intended to pay none of it to my father but to go and work for him instead as I have nothing to do after exams….HOW VERY WRONG I WAS!

 The school wants to put on as many shows as possible don’t they. So I had school Monday, work on Tuesday, school again on Wednesday and Thursday. Then half a days work on Friday and school in the afternoon! Saturday school!!! IT NEVER ENDS! I THOUGHT I HAD LEFT BACK IN MAY!!!

 This week, sixth form induction! fun!

06.08.07

My History Revision

Posted in School at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

Right so I’m in school with Nicole and she helping me revision for the BIG BIG BIGGEST OF BIG EXAMS!…..History paper one! ARGH!

So confident on Stalin’s Russia or USSR as it is meant to be referred too. But thanks to the wonderful BBC Bite-size not having my full course on the revision links we are forced to use the beloved text books…

Nicole asks me the question “Why Did Khrushchev Fall From Power?” I have no idea! the book says

“Khrushchev had once said ‘What sort of communism is it that cannot produce sausage?.’ More then 80 protesters were killed in there demonstrations”

 ………R-i-g-h-t………..

06.06.07

My Examinations

Posted in School, Uncategorized at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

I think these things called “Exams” are the most useless and pointless things in existence! I especially hate at the end when you have finished before the time has and you left sitting there checking your paper or not even that just sitting doing nothing. I think the worse part is sitting there knowing that however long you have left you can still change your life by improving your marks or completely muck things up!

(But you know if you even touch that paper your 30mins left become 3!)

I had my resistant materials exam a few weeks ago and I had finished the paper and hour into the two hour time frame, so I checked I’d answered the all questions (yes) then checked my seat (was right) then check my tier of the paper (I thought I was taking foundation but was terribly wrong and my timetable said higher…. And sooo bored out of my mind! I sit there watching a ticking clock. Surely the examiners could just let us go!?! So I look down at the desk and see carved into it “I’m a Little Teapot, Short and Spout”….SURELY THIS IS THE LAST THING TO THINK OF IN AN EXAM!

05.13.07

Leaving School Friday 11th May! Leaving my closest friends!

Posted in Friends, School, X-team at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

 “Good Luck Year 11″ Cakes lol from history

Thursday was the last full day of school. we were allowed shirts to be signed (to which i had “Property of X-team” wrote across my back!) photo were taken and all that jazz….

Friday was the big day, getting int

o school at 8am! because Dale without telling us; had volunteered the X team for the set up of the Leaver assembly. So in 3inch hill boots i tried to help and finally gave in and went to the breakfast in the refectory. More photos where taken and prom invites where handed out and breakfast was muffins and fruit with bottled water. So at 9:15 we moved over to the sports hall and started up the assembly. It started with year 11 giving a standing ovation to Mr Fairhurst the head of the school. He made a 20 minute speech. Then the fun started; we ran through the program with singers like Billy and Holly and Yasmin taking us lot from form on stage and talking about us, to reading poems. Then Mr Reynolds gave us the “best of luck speech” and played the sad spice girls music and kicked us out the hall.

I’ve never seen so many people cry in one room and be in the same year. slowly we got off the school grounds. Now myself Vicky, Matt and Solly had planned to go to lunch in Brentwood. We then added Nicole as me and her were going out that evening with the guys from sixth form; so we had a time limit. We invited Emma Q too as she is a very good friend to all of us! We waited outside the school for Matt and Solly for 10-15 minutes so me and Nicole decided we walk to mine so i could get changed as my feet were killing me; we’d then get the bus to Brentwood. Prefect timing Matt phoned me when we just getting on the bus to Brentwood. Beejal joined us and so did George for a while.

Poor Pizza Hut had 1/4 of shenfield turn up on there door step when they were short-staffed!

we then walked to the skate park for about 10minutes and then about 10 of us started to walk to Brentwood station. Me and Nicole left them and carried on walking to the station.

At shenfield we meet Adam, Jordan, Josh, Peter, Mark, WHO BUNKED A LESSON!!!! worse then me!!! tut tut tut! so we laughed and joked around and ran into Trudie and the other lot again and all bundled onto a train. The poor poor people who had most of year 11’s craziest people in the smallest space.

We went to go and see Spider-man 3! Boring or what! I could have gone to sleep! after we went again to Pizza Hut (twice in one day is tooooooo much) this was sooo funny, Jordan chatting up not 1 but 2 waitresses. One who was engaged! and him trying to pocket my phone and us lot telling Adam to keep his food down! then we walked back to the station. This was the saddest part of my day, maybe my life. Leaving this lot, well you might as well just be bipolar! I love them all terribly and I could not get any better friends, they kind and caring and I can re-lie on them for anything and I hope they know they can on me. I’d give my life for anyone of these lot! So trying to stop my water-works served impossible! and the rain made it worse! I got make-up all over Jordan’s designer shirt and Adam and Mark attacked my arse with the Kleenex tissues. This made it all the harder to leave them, know I will never have another wonderful lunch time full of laughs or a missed P.E lesson, or maybe a day off lessons for a set-up. Why i’m leaving them for college next year is a question I frequently ask myself. But we got on the train and I got home. Only to plan the next day I was travelling to Ongar too see them again!

I love you all so so much! I cannot thank you all enough for everything you have done for me. You are the best friends i have ever had and you all made the X-team, and coming to school the highlight of my days! The last 3 years have been amazing especially year 11’s lunch times. If I had the chance to stay I’d be grabbing it! Your all amazing!

 outside the assembley

05.07.07

Arcola!!! Show & Tell done!!!

Posted in Friends, School, X-team at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

I can not believe it! We arrived at school at 1pm so we could put finishing touches on the door me and Adam spent all of Friday building!!! (yes it took ages to build a frame and door) so when the couch arrived at 2 we with great difficulty loaded the door onto the underneath of the couch and the rest, X team got the back of the couch and we were off!

We got to the Arcola around 3:30 and unload the props into the cafe and waited 45Min’s for the last show to finish and get out. We then carried the props (THE HEAVY DOOR) into the studio, i took one look at the stage and wanted to scream! we were have 3 sets of audeince’s around us, no proper back stage area and it was a crap hole! I could have cried!But still some stupid person once said “The Show Must Go On”, clearly they had not seen the Arcola!!!

We moved the wings to the back of the stage for the stage crew, hung the set over them. I almost fell off the ladder which Josh and Adam saved me! we then did a tech run through and set out where the mice were to be pulled from. And I still hated it, I promise the lighting and sound if things went wrong i would not be coming back. I then rung the one person who would laugh at this so much. Jordan. To which he in a very unconvincing tone wished us all luck.

 Then we started the show……I couldn’t fault it! not once! The actors didn’t get there lines right but they were in the right place *ish* and the props worked well. THE DOOR DIDN’T BREAK! but Matt smith couldn’t work it! So there went my promise of i’ll leave if it goes wrong, just when I had a chance of getting out!!! :P

We packed up, and loaded the props onto the coach, which really annoyed the X as the actors just moved us, from our seats while we packed up THEIR show. we sat on the coach, ate bags of crisps and took photos, i rung Jordan again to tell him how it went….AND WE MISSED DR. WHO!!!

Door that caused so much trouble!

04.25.07

Show and Tell – DEADLINE APPROACHING

Posted in School, X-team at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

Right, revision? Search for Billy Lair book? Write a blog? You can guess what one I picked cant you! And if you obstinate like many of my friends and would make a comment here i.e Jordan! I picked writing a blog!

So the school had a play written for them called “Show and Tell”. This play was to be preformed at school in front of some weird competition people…All I remember is on the day rehearsals I spent most part of the day helping build a door with Peter, Josh and Jordan…..Not fun! We did the show and after many injuries (fishing wire through my hand, Adam smacking himself with a hammer, Jordan grazing his knuckles and josh cutting his finger open) The show went………..Crap like normal, the lighting ques where missed a extra scene was added, the actors got the lines wrong and it just generally went to pots…..We still got through to the next stage were we got a do the same show again at the Arcola Theater in Shorditch, London! HOW?!?! I hear you ask?! I have no idea!!!

This Saturday is when the show is to be shown to people of the National Theater company! Isn’t it going to be sooo much fun! Not! We suffered an hour and a half run through of “show and tell” seeing as it had not been run since the show! And Oh My Word this show is never going to be ready and shiny like the director wants by Saturday!

We are screwed!!! completely and utterly!

Right now to find a Billy Lair book before tomorrow!

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